Amber’s close to at her weakest, still reeling from events with Ethan and Sal and her own violent rages. There’s hope, though, simply because Blaine has not actually shown that much creativity. In his first encounter with Amber, he kept falling back on old tactics that didn’t really apply any more and all they earned him was multiple beatings and humiliations.

He’s obviously TRYING to play things smarter this time, but the results have only been successful so far because Danny is both uninformed AND not the most experienced judge of human nature. “It might… embarrass her… in front of her friends. Right? Yes, that sounds like a thing that a weakling, I mean, a ‘DECENT’ person, would say, doesn’t it? I am credible! I must relax my eyebrows but my eyebrows MUST EXPRESS MY RAAAAGE.”

At this point, his plan seems to be to tell Amber “Look at me, I can get to your stupid little ‘sweetheart’ who thinks you’re crazy, by the way. You can never escape me! FEAR ME. OBEY ME. LOVE ONLY ME.” But Amber, while upset about Danny in the short term, would probably hear this as “You know, I understand that you’re worried about your anger management issues, but really, you’d probably be fully justified in punching me into a coma. It’s okay, really. You TRIED to be reasonable, but I’m just not fucking human.”

Danny totally has no idea — Blaine was probably like, “hey, I’ll give my daughter a call to check in or see if she wants to meet for dinner, oh wait my phone is out of batteries” and Danny would helpfully be like “oh use mine” 🙁

Don’t you know? People on the forum here are the Anti-Danny. Not in that they oppose him (though the do), but because where Danny is blamed for failing to act on information he never had, the fandom KNOWS that he’s being perfectly rational based on his limited information, and yet fails to use that information and instead pretends he’s stupid.

Look, the people on the forum know, and they’re outside the universe. Danny should have known twice as well, and used that info the way the people outside would have because he was inside the universe.

No, he’s holding Danny’s ignorance hostage. And while it might be a semi-awkward moment, Blaine’s about to make it seem like it would make him hate her. And use it to, my guess, get her to move back in with him.

I REALLY hope that’s what it means, that he’s beaten the guy to a pulp and holding him hostage, because the other possibility is that Danny SO TERRIBLY DANNY-ED it up that he gave his phone to a stranger who could , as far as he know, very well be lying about being Amber’s father!

Yes, but since that might result in Amber no longer being able to attend school (Blaine says he pays for it), that is unlikely.
Or maybe he is jailed or w/e, and the rest of this quarter/ semester takes fifteen years to finish.

Danny is incapable of understanding that Amber is Amazi-Girl. If A-G shows up to confront Blaine (and possibly rescue Danny), he will just be all the more impressed with Amazi-Girl’s ability to detect where she is needed.

Earlier today I was thinking about how the chase scene pepped Amber up and it was nice that she got a chance to have G-rated superhero funtimes. Blowing off steam by showing off her skills, and competing against a couple kids who aren’t emotionally significant to her and obviously don’t mean her any harm (Dorothy’s been clear that she’s willing to negotiate with Amazi-Girl, even if she’s not exactly being nice to her).

I just want Blaine dead so much. I know he’s a fictional character and all, but he just reminds me of so many people I’ve known and wanted to stab. Having to look at his smug face makes me want to strangle him.

Danny is actually a character I like. One of like all of three people who do, it feels like sometimes, but yikes, I wonder if he is okay. I don’t think Danny would have just handed his phone over willingly, would he?

Blaine genuinely freaks me out, especially that panel there. You draw evil pretty well, Danny, that scares me MUCH more than any horror film or supervillain.

Danny has no idea what Blaine is like, and the man was quite nice to him and seemed genuinely concerned. All Blaine would have to do is say he lost his phone or something and wanted to make sure she was okay.

Why wouldn’t he hand it over willingly? He doesn’t know Blaine is a bad guy. It’s entirely likely that Danny would have given it to him without hesitation even if Blaine hadn’t been trying to deceive him.

I strongly agree with this thread. I think people are jumping to the wrong conclusions that Danny’s hurt or something. Danny doesn’t know of any reason not to acquiesce to a calm request from Amber’s concerned dad.

I can’t even handle how accurate this comic is right now when it comes to abusers. My addict/alcoholic brother got violent last week and was since told to stay away… so naturally he’s calling on every phone he can get his hands, leaving awful voicemails and threatening my mother. Blaine is spot on in so many ways.

Really digging the first panel. I’m thinking her dad has kidnapped Danny or use him as a bargaining chip. Oh and um… is there a reason Dorothy is brunette in the Walky performs a sex? I’m new to all the universes so it might’ve went over my head.

Well … talking about a pay-for-access content that is also NSFW would be distracting (and possibly shocking) for those readers who are not interested ?
Even if “Walky Performs a Sex” is Canon, it’s still out of the main storyline. Also, it’s awesome ; I now know all of Dorothy’s freckles !

Willis, is there anyway we could just pay you directly to see this arc? I don’t want to subscribe to that site, but I’d gladly put my cashola directly into your pocket. (In retrospect, that sounds like a sexytimes invite, but that’s not what I mean!) Or at least tell me it will be in the book, whenever it comes out . . .

They purchased it directly? What happens to the material if the site goes defunct? Strange that you would consider giving up all rights permanently; for example, I’m sure that Larry Welz still has some control over/claiim to his “Cherry” art that is also on Slipshine.

Can’t wait for the DorothyXWalky featurette to get leaked. I’d love to support Willis but unfortunately I’m far too broke to pay for it.
Which is sad, because THE PREVIEW LOOKS HOT AS HELL OH MY GOSJSJCJFJEKDKSKCKTITGJVJV

It wasn’t, that I know of. Willis is referring to Sammie1053’s wish that [Willis’s] work be leaked (he did something on Slipshine, which costs money for a subscription) so that he does not have to pay for it. Which is sorta….stupid to say on the chat section of a comic when the creator is active in his comments.

I don’t know how these things work. Sometimes creators get percentages? Either way, if everyone reads the leaked stuff, less people will sign up for Slipshine specifically for DoA art. Even if Willis doesn’t get paid per subscription, that might mean Slipshine is less willing to pay for his stuff again if his audience just pirates it. Either way: not cool.

Yeah, a bunch of my favourite artists, EVERY SINGLE TIME they post some for-pay awesome thing, SOME ASSHOLE comments how “oh I wish I was rich, but that’s too much” >=( Come on, dudes, it’s not like the comics will expire or something! [the site permanently going down is a different matter but is premature to talk about because it’s JUST FINE at the moment]

I feel really bad for another artist who makes one-of-a-kind trinkets, because people seem to think, at ~$5-10/hr for what most of her pieces sell for, it’s still “too much money” for a UNIQUE PIECE OF ART. Even McDonalds workers get more than that AND some kind of benefits [unless they’re part-timers]–is art REALLY less valuable to people than shitty burgers?

*Sad kindergartner voice*
Sorry Willis…
I didn’t mean it as “gee whiz, i sure hope this gets leaked and scams Mister Willis out of money!” although i get how it would come across that way. I just meant that, since this is the internet, and people are generally terrible, it will eventually get posted to paheal or something, and that’s unfortunately the only viable way I’m likely to see it.
Regardless, it was a shitty thing to say.

Well, understand how, with SOME things, it may be the first time YOU ever said it, but when your first time saying it is the 2570327532987592876529805th time to someone else, you shouldn’t be surprised if that someone gets a bit testy.

[“You’re being too sensitive” is one of those things, for the record, not that you said it]

Danny is part idiot, sure, but Amber’s kept him away from information that could have helped his decision making here. I do get why Amber doesn’t open up. It’s hard but Danny would never have given her dad his phone if she had been able to open up to him (and isn’t ironic daddy’s the main reason she CAN’T open up?) and would probably have gotten the shit beaten out of him for trying to avenge Amber. Oh and another reminder that if Danny’s an idiot for not knowings Amber’s Amazi-Girl than so is Billie, Joyce, and Walky at least. Let’s confine his idiocy to his willful naivete, joy in dead end relationships, and putting a romantic ideal above his own well being…

I gotta be honest folks, the deranged look on Blaine’s face really makes me think that Danny was not at all willing to hand over his phone, and probably not in a position to stop him from using it either.

See the highlighted yellow Reply? If you click on it, it opens a new comment box that is directly below the comment you want to respond to. When you hit “Post Comment” it shows up nested under the comment you were responding to, which makes it much easier for everyone to follow conversations.

She got away from her pursuers, so there’s no actual reason to assume that she’d go more than “to the next time the truck stops”. Which probably wouldn’t be that far in the midst of a town. (of course, if said truck got lucky on the stoplights, she could be in serious trouble when it hits the highway)

Uuuughhh, that’s so haaaarrd… Probably Danny, because we have to put up with him far more. I asked Willis on Tumblr if he could have Danny murdered and shoved into a fridge like Kyle Rayner’s original girlfriend. I was joking, but I would genuinely prefer that to Danny as is, because he’d at least be more interesting as a corpse. Maybe Mike could make a puppet out of it.

You know, I know a lot of people are posting comments about “Oh man I hate Blaine so much get back to hijinx” but I gotta hand it to you Mr. Willis, bravo. I’m legit enjoying the guy, because he feels like a very real villain. I mean, I know he was in Shortpacked too, but he was in too briefly for me to really get a feel for his character, if that makes sense. But in this comic he’s still only been in a brief period of time but he’s a real scumbag and it just oozes through the page. I commend you for really knocking it out of the park with this storyline because it’s pretty much the best the comic’s ever been so far, in my opinion.

Ehh, the bad parts were more forgettable to me. I remember the movie for Peter’s struggle against the symbiote, Peter and Harry redeeming themselves and their friendship, a good fight scene with Venom, and of course the genuinely complex Sandman. I know it’s the worst of the three overall, but it’s actually my favourite of them for what it does well.

iPhones have a water-exposure sensor which they checked when I brought mine in for a inoperative top button. He might want to make that known to his phone provider just in case.
AS a result, my new one is in a waterproof case. $80 is better than the bs insurance my carrier offers.

I’m going to go on record here to say that:
1) Danny doesn’t know Amber = Amazi-Girl, and would not have a telephone number for her as Amazi-Girl. Nobody does!! As a rule, superheroes don’t make a habit of giving out their phone numbers, so her secret identity is still more-or-less safe.
2) Danny’s only connection to Amazi-Girl is through the Nintendo DS. Remember the trouble he had earlier when he wanted to try to get together with her; he tried to provoke the jock into starting something hoping Amazi-Girl would show up.
3) Danny is unharmed; Blaine is just using his phone. Remember, Amber doesn’t care all that much for her father; maybe he doesn’t even have her cell number and poor clueless-but-ever-helpful Danny said, “I’ve got it right here; go ahead and use my phone.”

3a) This does mean that if Amber was in fact trying to keep Blaine in the dark as to her cell number he can now get it from Danny’s phone, and if he does so this could lead to serious problems in the future.

Everyone interested in cartoon erotica should go to the Slipshine site. I not and I also don’t care for heterosexual porn but those sample pages had me very, very tempted! There were feels and laughs and if it had been an Ethan story I totally would have paid for my first cartoon porn ever.

Normally I think Willis’s art accentuates the mood really well, but, well… Walky’s expression in the second panel of WPAS is one of the most unarousing things I’ve ever seen. I don’t think I could even try to read the rest of it.

I don’t have a problem with porn, but I have a big grudge against Slipshine because I watched it slowly draw away the authors of several comics I used to read until they stopped updating entirely. It’s depressing watching authors you like abandon their work because porn pays better. (I’m not saying that will happen to Willis, just remembering the past)

What if Lucas never made Return of the Jedi because he found porn was more lucrative? What if JK Rowling never wrote Deathly Hallows because she found porn paid better? What if they permanently canceled Dr. Who in the middle of a season because the Doctor found out he’d make more as a porn star? Etc etc, you get the idea, substitute in a favorite comic, film series, TV show, whatever.

Considering Willis has a buffer on this comic up to *checks* April 17th, and has been doing two comics for a few years now… I’m pretty sure he can handle the occasional foray into hanky panky without abandoning DoA.

Is it just the money, or did they find out they like porn better? Also, how can you hate on a website for actually paying artists what is apparently a decent amount of money, rather than them having to rely on selling t-shirts and/or getting donations? If I wasn’t in bad financial times right now, I’d totally buy the year subscription to I could help pay for more wonderful artists to continue making more wonderful art. Especially art I can get off to. haha

I’m torn. I’m feeling that 17 pages (of which four are already a free preview) don’t really justify the minimum $25 price of a one month Slipshine subscription. Of course, the entire Slipshine archives would more than justify the cost, but I don’t have the time or energy to binge-read webcomics anymore. I’d need a lot more than a month just to determine which of them I’d want to keep reading, and more months mean more monthly fees. Smaller fees than the first, sure, but I wouldn’t have to pay those extra monthly fees just to read WPAS, and that’s the only reason I’m considering a subscription in the first place.

What I’m trying to say is, I can’t decide how to justify the subscription I’ll inevitably end up paying for. 😛

I’m not sure if WPAS is worth it alone, but there’s a bunch of great stuff there for a lot of people and wank-material aside I found a lot of the comics entertaining, funny, or just good even if they didn’t quite “do it for me”.

This creepy ass motherfucker right here. What the hell is wrong with him? I’m trying to figure out how he found a woman submissive enough to marry him the 2nd time. Amber is your daughter not your property. You can’t do with her as you please. And damn it Danny STOP HELPING!

Seriously Willis I know you’ve said no one’s getting hit with a truck in this universe, but this is the one guy who deserves it and it would be hella fitting and… oh God, you’re going to have this truck hit him and further Amber’s breakdown and subsequent angst, aren’t you.

I have never before hoped that a character’s facial expression was caused by Danny chopping that person in half with a knife and holding it with it. Even if Danny was doing a Blaine impression after that, it wouldn’t be half as bad as the sheer volume of the resulting drama of him, y’know, giving the phone to Blaine. Or any other outcome that involves Blaine staying alive for more than two minutes after starting this call.

Does Amber have two phones? One for Amazi-Girl and one for her? Just a couple strips earlier Danny mentioned he hadn’t heard from his gf ie Amazi-girl, no text or anything. But now Amber’s phone has Danny calling her? Is Danny that stupid or what?

But does he have Amber’s? If yes, does Amber know whether Danny is calling her, or whether he’s calling Amazi-girl? Does she wing it? If no, does this mean that Blaine knows she’s Amazi-girl, like Ethan does?

Danny being Danny, I find it entirely plausible that he could have both numbers and not have noticed that they were the same.

(Hell, I don’t think I’d notice. I don’t remember phone numbers anymore. I just punch them into my phone, and after that, it’s my phone’s problem. I don’t even know my own number; I have to check my phone every time I need to give it to someone. I’ve got better things to do with that memory, like remembering passwords and my servers’ IP addresses and RSA key fingerprints and how many times Billie has said “fuck”.)

But, yeah, there’s no evidence that Danny has a phone number for Amazi-Girl.

Couple strips back, Danny is worried about Amazi-Girl and tells Billie that he hasn’t heard back from her via text. I think solving the Amazi-Girl/Amber how does she know who to be for Danny. She probably doesn’t have outgoing voice/incoming voice (other than voicemail) for AG, because she doesn’t really need it. I’m sure Danny and AG don’t stay up all night chatting on the phone.

Regarding Comic: Excellent!
Regarding Slipshine: First time I’ve ever paid to view anything on the Internet; well worth it, and I hope that anyone who wishes to view will take the honourable route and throw down a few pennies : )

Alas, a restraining order is not a magical force-field, and people can and do break them. Not to mention that when someone breaks them, the police reaction could be arrest, but it could also be a fine or a citation, leaving the person angry and even more likely to lash out. Given Blaine’s actions so far… I can’t really see a piece of paper stopping him.

It was implied, although not stated explicitly, in the dorm room scene that there is one. A big problem with RO’s, is that people don’t enforce them. She should have been on the phone with the police as soon as she got away from him. Even without a RO, there was enough to put him in jail. BUT, not enforcing it at the time weakens the order in the eyes of the court, both the issuing one, and any criminal proceeding later.

A lot of the hesitating on enforcement comes from not wanting to look weak, by hiding behind the RO. Or, on the other hand, there is a fear of looking like you are “crying wolf”.

from the evil smile on blain’s face odds are danny is not really having a good day any more. hope he is ready for a butt kicking by amazing girl once she learns its him on the other end time for daddy blaine for some tough love amber style

Hmph. I would be willing to pay Slipshine via Paypal or bitcoins, but they don’t offer those options — and am far less eager to give my credit card information while buying porn. Especially given their ‘rebilling’ strategy.

So I suppose I’ll have to wait until Paypal or Bitcoin payment options become available, if ever.

My point was that Slipshine doesn’t give me an option of me giving them my money – it only offers me an option of me giving them First Name/Last Name/Address/City/ Credit Card No/Expiration Date/CVV2 number/Name On Card

If they want to give me an option where I can give them my money, WITHOUT giving them my credit card number, I’ll be happy to take it. But they don’t accept money, they accept credit card information instead.

Some porn sites *have* been known to occasionally do shady things with subscriptions. They expect people to be too embarrassed to take them to the courts for stuff like “they aren’t cancelling my dwarf fetish subscription!” Or in this case “they aren’t cancelling my cartoon porn”.

Slipshine may of course be entirely on the level, but their “rebilling” still implies that they’ll be keeping my credit card information on file. I can barely tolerate Paypal and Amazon.com having that information, because the value they offer me outweighs the risk. But giving that info to Slipshine (or any other porn site) falls beyond my comfort zone, and so I won’t. If that choice offends you, it’s still nonetheless mine to make.